Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music would be the best Boston would hear this season, were it not for the fact that My Fair Lady itself is coming later. Memorable songs abound: "Follow Me," sung by Nimue to a failing Merlyn; "C'est Moi," trumpeted by a self-confident Lancelot; and the gloomy "Guinevere," rendered by the ensemble, dressed in subdued, monkish robes and standing in near-darkness...
When "Camelot" is sung again, it is at the end of the play, and the miracle of Camelot, the city of the Round Table, is no more. A desolate Arthur meets a small boy who is imbued with all the good and none of the bad that came of the noble experiment, and who wants to fight for Arthur in the conflict that will dissolve Camelot once and for all. "Camelot" becomes a moving wish for what might have been and a statement of hope for mankind, as Arthur charges the boy to go back home and spread the true...
Much, however, as the audience (and I suspect, the singers) might have enjoyed an evening of football songs, there was other music on the program, and some of it was much worth remembering. I am thinking, in particular, of the Coronation Scene from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, sung by both clubs together. Any chorus of two hundred massed on a stage tends to be impressive, no matter what is sung. But the Moussorgsky was more than impressive; it was a triumph of high spirit and high decibels. The accompanists, playing what sounded like a two-piano arrangement of the massive...
...balance of last night's program consisted largely of sixteenth-century religious music, American folk songs and spirituals, and a handful of unclassifiable songs. One of the latter was Francois Poulenc's Chanson A Boire, dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club and sung by the Elis. It's a sort of cadenza for chorus, and, despite occasional Gallic touches, did not sound very different from the American folk songs sung separately by both clubs...
Hasty Puddings. Young Alan wrote a football marching song that is still sung at Choate, was one of the editors of the school yearbook, along with 19-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy. (A registered Republican, Lerner organized a Stevenson Club in 1956, likes Kennedy well enough and still sees him occasionally, but has said of the 1960 election that he really does not "give a damn," is for Jack only because he is against Nixon...